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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CEO’ operating in the Marketplace space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jonathan Wasserstrum
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SquareFoot
Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.
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About MetaProp, MetaProp, SquareFoot: SquareFoot is a marketplace that helps companies find office spaces.
Ryan Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Cadre
Ryan Williams is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cadre.
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About Cadre: Cadre is an online marketplace that connects investors and operators of real estate.
Jack Pratten
Co-founder & CEO of Respondent Inc.
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About Respondent Inc.: Respondent is a marketplace that connects researchers with research participants for qualitative research studies
Andy Aranda
Founder and CEO of Breazy
Andy Aranda is the Founder and CEO of Breazy, Inc.
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About Breazy: Ecommerce, Alternative Wellness
Lily Shen
President & CEO of Transfix
Lily Shen is an entrepreneur and has worked for companies with the likes of Bloomspot, Wealthfront and eBay inc.
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About Transfix: Transfix is a freight marketplace connecting shippers to a national network of reliable carriers.
Arun Gupta
CEO and Co-Founder of Grailed
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About Grailed: Grailed is a peer-to-peer marketplace company that offers fashion and lifestyle accessories and apparel for men.
Sharron Battle
Founder & CEO of Derbywire
Sharron Battle is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of selfiepay and Derbywire.
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About Derbywire, selfiepay: Derbywire is a mobile social marketplace allowing individuals to store, sell, and buy digital content.
Ishveen Anand
Founder & CEO of OpenSponsorship
Ishveen Anand is the founder and CEO OpenSponsorship. The startup was born out of her experience as a successful sports agent in India and the UK. OpenSponsorship now has over 2000 athletes, teams and events being managed to brands globally looking for sports marketing opportunities. Ishveen was included in the Forbes 30under30 sports list in 2015 and OpenSponsorship was named a finalist in the 2015 Sports Technology Awards, category of best technology facilitating commercial returns. She graduated from Oxford University. She is of Indian-British origin, now living in New York where OpenSponsorship is based.
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About Nimbus Communications, OpenSponsorship: OpenSponsorship is online platform solely focused on allowing brands to Search, Connect and Sponsor opportunities within professional sports
Raunak Nirmal
CEO of Acquco
Raunak Nirmal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Acquco. He is also the Founder of Refundlabs.
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About Acquco: Acquco is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.
Anthony Girand
CEO, Co-Founder of VoyagerMed
Anthony has over 15 years of experience as a Private Wealth advisor on Wall Street. He left Forbes Family Trust in 2014 to start VoyagerMed and has been spearheading the company’s digital operations ever since. Contact Anthony at [email protected]
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About VoyagerMed: A medical tourism marketplace faciliating access to life changing medical innovations from trusted doctors around the world.
Reham Fagiri
Co-founder & CEO of AptDeco
Reham is the co-founder and CEO of AptDeco, a marketplace for buying and selling used furniture. AptDeco is a vertically integrated platform combining both the marketplace and logistics in one. Prior to AptDeco Reham worked at Goldman Sachs in various engineering and management positions where she built various internal technology applications. She also managed large scale engineering teams focusing on designing, building and launching new technology applications. Reham holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Maryland, College Park and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About AptDeco: AptDeco is a peer to peer marketplace for buying and selling furniture.
Ryan Smith
Co-founder & CEO of LeafLink
Prior to co-founding LeafLink, Ryan successfully founded and exited two companies, one of which he sold to an NYSE public firm. Ryan brings his experience creating and managing B2B firms and online marketplace investing in a highly-regulated space to LeafLink as Chief Executive Officer.
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About LeafLink: LeafLink is a wholesale management platform that connects cannabis brands and retailers.
John S. Shriber
Co- Founder & CEO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Aaron Sherman
Co-Founder & CEO of SevenFifty
Aaron Sherman is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of SevenFifty. With over a decade in the industry and extensive experience as a sommelier, beverage manager and industry consultant, Sherman brings a breadth of knowledge and passion to his position. As CEO of SevenFifty, Sherman plays the executive lead and oversees overall company vision and growth. Prior to co-founding SevenFifty, Sherman worked as a sommelier and beverage manager for New York restaurants WD-50 and L’Artusi. He was also the beverage director at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles, where he was responsible for running the beverage programs of their multi-outlet venue, including Jose Andres’ restaurant The Bazaar. Sherman holds a Diploma of Wine and Spirits from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust and is a Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers.
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About SevenFifty: SevenFifty helps importers, producers, distributors, and retail buyers connect with each other and do business in a modern world.
Yu Chen
Founder & CEO of PingPong
Robert Chen co-founded PingPong Global Solutions Inc. in 2015 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Robert is focused on transforming the payment industry to make selling easy everywhere in the world for e-commerce sellers. Prior to co-founding PingPong Global Solutions Inc., Robert’s career included 10 years as a Manager at Deloitte Consulting in New York. Robert holds an M.S. in Mathematics from University of Connecticut and a B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai.
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About PingPong: The first, and only, international Fintech company to focus exclusively on global eCommerce Marketplace sellers.
Zach Ehrlich
Founder and CEO of Stoop
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About Stoop: Stoop is a marketplace platform for furnished home rentals and urban residential space.
Yaakov James Zar
Co-Founder and CEO of Lev
Yaakov Zar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lev.
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About Dispatch, Lev: Lev is a commercial mortgage marketplace.
Alpay Koralturk
Founder & CEO of Kaiyo
Alpay Koralturk, founder and CEO of Kaiyo.
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About Kaiyo: Kaiyo is an online marketplace for pre-owned furniture dedicated to great design, exceptional customer care, and a more sustainable planet.
Michael Bramlage
Chief Executive Officer of Quidd
Michael Bramlage is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Quidd, a platform for buying, trading and using premium, rare digital goods. As CEO, he oversees corporate direction and strategy at the company, facilitating company activity in product development, user acquisition, marketing, and partnerships. Prior to Quidd, Bramlage founded the mobile apps division at Topps. As VP & General Manager of the newly formed Topps Digital, he was responsible for the launch of multiple top-grossing apps, growing annual revenue from zero to eight figures during his tenure. Prior to this, he was Head of Product at Nokia. In under three years, he oversaw the conception, design, development, and launch of 18 new versions of the company’s mobile app store, Ovi Store, for Series 40, Symbian and MeeGo devices. Bramlage began his career at Microsoft. While working on Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) he established the industry’s first instant messaging interoperability agreements, brokering and implementing technical and data partnerships with Yahoo!, Facebook and LinkedIn. Bramlage is a native of Detroit, Michigan and a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. In his spare time, he is an obsessive record collector and proud owner of several extremely rare vinyl pressings.
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About Quidd: Quidd is the marketplace for buying and selling digital collectibles. Over 2.1B assets issued. Backed by Sequoia.
Jared Hecht
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fundera
Jared Hecht is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Fundera, an online marketplace that matches small business owners to the best possible lender. He started Fundera after his cousin experienced the frustration and lack of transparency of applying for a small business loan. Previously, Jared co-founded GroupMe, a group messaging service that in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011. Prior to GroupMe, he led Business Development at Tumblr where he focused on international expansion and strategic partnerships. Jared currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Entrepreneurship Organization and is an investor and advisor to startups such as Codecademy, SmartThings, and TransferWise. Jared received his BA in Political Science from Columbia University where he served as the publisher and managing director of Inside New York.
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About Fundera: Fundera is a marketplace for small business financial solutions.
Bill Shope
Co-founder and CEO of Abound
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About Abound: Abound is a marketplace that helps entrepreneurs gain the insights and connections needed to place their products on retail shelves.
Alana Branston
Co-Founder & CEO of Bulletin
Our stores feature products from female-led brands that, until now, have only sold on the internet. Instead of wholesale or consignment, Bulletin rents sections of our store on a month-to-month basis, which has lowered the barrier to entry for physical retail. Now, digital brands can quickly plug into our in-store community. The coolest part? Bulletin gives 10% of all store proceeds to Planned Parenthood of NYC.
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About Bulletin: Bulletin operates as a wholesale marketplace and community that connects premium brands and retailers.
David Rosenblatt
CEO of 1stdibs
David Rosenblatt is the CEO of 1stdibs.com. From 2004 through 2008, Rosenblatt served as the CEO of DoubleClick, the leading provider of digital marketing technology and services. Prior to becoming CEO, Rosenblatt held several executive positions at DoubleClick, including President from 2000 – 2005. Following Rosenblatt’s sale of the company to Google in 2007 for $3.2 billion,he served as Google’s President of Global Display Advertising until 2009. He is currently Chairman and co-founder of Group Commerce, Inc.David is also a board member of Twitter and Narrative Science, Inc..Rosenblatt graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About 1stdibs, Group Commerce, Narrative Science: 1stdibs is an internet company that offers a marketplace for rare and desirable objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry.
Yasin Abbak
CEO / Founder of The Convoy
Yasin Abbak is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Convoy, a B2B group buying marketplace that helps small and independent businesses access big savings and cut their business expenses. Past: CEO / Founder @FantasyLifeApp (exit), VP @JPMorgan, EFS Director @MorganStanley
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About The Convoy: The Convoy is a B2B Marketplace pooling the buying power of small & independently owned businesses to reduce business expenses.
Nicole Neal
Co-Founder & CEO of Noodle Markets
Nicole is a visionary leader and pioneer at building transformative educational products. As the CEO of Noodle Markets, she leads the company in its mission to enhance efficiency and transparency within the education landscape by revolutionizing K-12 purchasing. Prior to joining the company, Nicole was the President of the Education Solutions Group at CORE Education Consulting and Solutions, Inc., where she oversaw a staff of 300 employees and managed a portfolio of formative assessment, intervention, and content solutions for districts and states serving the Pre-K, K-12, Employability, Special Education and Higher Education sectors. Nicole also served as the Senior Vice President of Major Accounts and State Services for Pearson Education Inc., one of the world’s largest education publishing and technology companies. Prior to Pearson, she served as Senior Vice President of Client Services for Schoolnet, Inc. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Binghamton University’s Watson School of Engineering and an MBA from the University of Maryland University College. When she is not working, Nicole finds great joy in mentoring young girls and spending quality time with her family and friends
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About Noodle Markets: Noodle Markets is K-12’s first digital procurement platform and national marketplace.
Raad Ahmed
Founder and CEO of LawTrades
Raad Ahmed Born in New York City and spent most of my adolescent years in Long Island. At a young age He discovered that he loved music and all things creative. I am naturally an imaginative person -– produce videos, learned guitar and started a website in law school. Currently, I am the Founder/CEO at LawTrades. Our mission to improve access to legal services through really disruptive technology.
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About LawTrades: LawTrades is an online message-based platform that allows anyone to seamlessly find, hire, and work with lawyers.
Adarsh Alphons
Founder and CEO of Wardrobe
Adarsh Alphons is the founder and CEO of Wardrobe. Prior to Wardrobe, Adarsh founded ProjectArt—currently the nation’s largest art school, without owning a single building. Adarsh’s expertise in catalyzing underutilized resources into productivity, building asset-light organizations and ability to bring self-interested partners together for a common cause made ProjectArt a leader in its field and a nationally-scaled enterprise. He is a CNN Hero, Columbia University Community Scholar and a 40 Under 40 in Global Art Business.
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About Wardrobe: Wardrobe is a peer-to-peer luxury clothing rental app focused on sustainability.
Alexander Kates
Cofounder & CEO of Vetcove
Cofounder and CEO of Vetcove.
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About Vetcove: Vetcove is the largest B2B veterinary marketplace, enabling veterinary hospitals to compare and buy supplies from all of their vendors.
JP Rosato
CEO & Founder of Sitehands
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About CS Technology, Sitehands: Sitehands is a global IT marketplace serving the largest global Financial Institutions and Fortune 500 companies.
Josh Wexler
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RevCascade
Josh is responsible for the company’s 49bc unified platform technology, revenue, and strategy. After joining Rubicon Project in May 2008, Josh helped build the company from a start up with 40 employees, to one of the largest independent technology firms focused on the buying and selling of advertising. Previously at Rubicon Project, Josh ran the seller business and most recently was the Head of Buyer Cloud. Josh is considered an industry thought leader and has presented at numerous industry events including ad:tech, Digiday, IAB, and MMA. A seasoned entrepreneur and business leader, Josh loves bringing new ideas to market. Prior to joining Rubicon Project, Josh was a co-founder and CEO of SWMX (SoftWave Media Exchange), a media exchange that automated the radio, cable, and television advertising industry. Earlier in his career, Josh co-founded Hypnotic Hats Ltd., (HYP), a boutique apparel and accessories company popular among celebrities, professional athletes, the fashion elite and music industry icons. HYP became a global brand and was profiled by Esquire Magazine, New York Magazine, ABC TV, and MTV, among others. Josh attended Cornell University where, as a four-year starter on the men’s basketball team, he was a member and captain of Cornell’s 1988 Ivy League Championship team. Additionally, he is a three-time medal winner in the United States Men’s Maccabiah Basketball team. – See more at: http://rubiconproject.com/leadership-team/josh-wexler/#sthash.QL163XyA.dpuf
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About RevCascade: Marketplace automation for brands and retailers
Jeremy Parker
Co-Founder & CEO of Swag.com
Jeremy Parker is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Swag.com.
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About Swag.com: Swag.com helps companies create quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep.
Andrew Wyatt
CEO, Co-Founder of CALA
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About CALA: CALA is a marketplace that provides retail infrastructure for influencers and fashion brands to design and launch their own fashion brands.
Emeka C Anen
Founder & CEO of THRONE
Emeka serves as a Founder and CEO at THRONE. THRONE’s is creating technology based tools in order to add value to the sneaker and streetwear ecosystem. THRONE’s first product is a peer-peer marketplace available for download on iOS now. Learn more at www.THRONE.xyz.
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About THRONE: THRONE is a mobile-first marketplace created to faciliate buying , selling and discovery within the footwear community.
Zachary Garippa
Co-Founder and CEO of Order
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About Order: Order is a guided B2B marketplace that helps businesses place orders, control spend, and submit payment across their vendors.
Seif Saghri
CEO & Founder of BenefitHub
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About BenefitHub: BenefitHub is the market’s number one online benefit portal and employee discount marketplace in the US.
Jed Stiller
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Stadium Goods
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About BLADES.COM (BLADES), SMVentures, Stadium Goods: Stadium Goods is an online marketplace for sought after sneakers and streetwear.
John McPheters
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Stadium Goods
John McPheters founded SM Ventures, Inc in 2012 with Jed Stiller. His focus is on e-commerce/tech development and growth strategies.
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About BLADES.COM (BLADES), SMVentures, Stadium Goods: Stadium Goods is an online marketplace for sought after sneakers and streetwear.
Alexi Nazem
Co-Founder & CEO of Nomad Health
Practicing internal medicine specialist. Weill Cornell Medical College faculty. Yale M.D. / Harvard M.B.A. Dreams of Federer’s forehand.
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About Nomad Health: Nomad Health is an online marketplace for healthcare jobs.
Mohammad Samrat
Founder & CEO of AutopartsZ
Mr. Samrat founded AutopartsZ, PartsCargo, PartzRoot, Vinndo, and ScopePrice. As a CEO he supervises every aspect of AutopartsZ and as a founder; oversees the operation of the other company’s. He leads a group of professionals who are truly unique, knowledgeable and dedicated. Mr. Samrat is passionate about exceptional leadership and innovation; especially in the automotive industry. He has become an experienced and successful young entrepreneur at an early age. He has a dream to develop an integrated solution for global technology market through innovation. In addition, he is contributing a great deal with a significant strategy in the automobile industry with his diligent capability. Being a motivational leader, he cares for his employees and constantly motivates and rewards them to bring the best out of their capabilities. He embodies the character of a successful entrepreneur.
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About AutopartsZ, VINNDO: AutopartsZ – The Best Auto Parts Finder App
Mohamed Haouache
CEO of Storefront
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About Storefront: Storefront is an online marketplace for renting short term retail space.
Devin Daly
Co-Founder & CEO of SpinCar
Devin co-founded SwipeToSpin in 2011 with the goal of making online shopping more intuitive and engaging than ever before. With a background in venture capital consulting, Devin was afforded a unique perspective on cutting-edge software solutions. After watching one tech company, which enabled eCommerce websites to easily add zoom functionality to their websites, rise to its now ubiquitous position he saw a similar opportunity for 360 content. Devin knew from his own shopping experience and numerous industry studies that consumers feel much more confident in their online purchase if they can view a product from 360 degrees. As an early advocate of growth hacking, Devin teaches traditional businesses how to apply lean business methodologies to increase profitability. In long-established industries like automotive, SwipeToSpin flips conventional growth theory on its head. By promoting total optimization of the online sales funnel prior to advertising spend, SwipeToSpin helps retailers get significantly more leverage out of their marketing dollars and dominate competition. Devin earned his Bachelors degree in Finance and Economics from Saint Joseph’s University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude while playing Division I Men’s Varsity Lacrosse.
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About SpinCar: SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising.
John Jahnke
CEO of Tackle
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About Tackle: Tackle.io operates as a cloud marketplace subscription platform that helps software providers generate revenue.
Yaniv Kalish
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SolarKal
Yaniv Kalish is a Founder & CEO at SolarKal.
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About SolarKal: SolarKal is the largest B2B solar energy marketplace in the US, connecting organizations to solar providers who compete for their business.
Andres Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO of Famosos
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About Famosos, Seconds: LATAM”s Leading Celebrity Engagement Platform – A marketplace where fans and businesses can hire Hispanic celebrities.
Karen Cahn
Founder & CEO of IFundWomen
Karen Cahn is the Founder & CEO of iFundWomen, and is working on closing the funding and the confidence gap for early-stage female entrepreneurs, empowering women to start and grow better businesses. iFundWomen drives funding to women-led startups, small businesses, nonprofits, and side hustles through a flexible crowdfunding platform with a pay-it-forward model, expert crowdfunding and startup coaching, professional video production, and a private community for their entrepreneurs to talk openly about the wins, the challenges, and what actually works in the world of startup funding. Karen is a pioneer in the digital media space, and was an early Google employee where she spent 10 years leading various monetization teams in search, display and video. Most notably, Karen started the Branded Entertainment business at YouTube, when back in the olden times of Youtube, 2007, she and a rogue group of sales and product people, made the connection between big consumer brands and video creators, thus creating the first, highly-monetized native video ad experiences on YouTube. Most recently, Karen spent three years as General Manager of AOL Original Video, and was responsible for business strategy and strategic partnerships. In this role, Karen built AOL’s female creative economy in video and as a result, nabbed AOL it’s first-ever Emmy nod. Karen is on the board of advisors of Girl Rising, an organization dedicated to girls education in developing countries. She is also on the Springboard Media Council, a highly respected group of experts across the world of digital content, who invest their “human capital” in Springboard and their pipeline of high-growth, women-led companies. Karen holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majoring in African-American Studies and US History.
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About IFundWomen: IFundWomen is the go-to funding marketplace for women entrepreneurs and the people who want to support them.
Yoav Hornung
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of VeedMe
Yoav Hornung is the Creative Verticals Group Manager at Fiverr.
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About Coverr, Fiverr, VeedMe: VeedMe is a video creation marketplace that connects businesses with reliable and talented videographer communities.
Tim Chatfield
Co-Founder // CEO of Jitjatjo
I’m a savvy executive, entrepreneur, and a passionate advocate for digital technology and the sharing economy. I have an exceptional ability to lead multi-stream projects and geographically dispersed teams.
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About Jitjatjo: Talent Marketplace and Flexible Workforce Management Platform
Ariel Maidansky
Co-Founder and CEO of Envizzo
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About Envizzo: Envizzo is a platform for real estate operators to design and furnish properties with ease.
Haohan Xu
Founder & CEO of Apifiny
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About Apifiny, Roxe: A global digital asset trading network unifying fragmented markets, providing superior liquidity and trade execution for professionals.
Brian Caouette
Cofounder & CEO of OnFrontiers
Brian manages OnFrontiers day to day. Before OnFrontiers Brian founded Farmbuilders (Echoing Green Fellow) and was an early employee with Seamless Health.
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About OnFrontiers: OnFrontiers builds enterprise knowledge networks for distributed businesses seeking to become more agile and competitive.
Fatma Collins
Co-Founder & CEO of Ten Little
Fatma Collins currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Ten Little. She previously worked at Artsy as the VP of Product.
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About Ten Little: Ten Little is a modern marketplace that guides parents to the right products and resources for their kids at every stage.
Michael Friedman
CEO of Broker Dealer of LEX Markets
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About LEX Markets: LEX Markets is a commercial real estate securities marketplace that takes commercial buildings public through single-asset IPOs.
Marc Ambrus
CEO of Tradeewatches
Founded TickeTac, later acquired by Group Le Figaro. TickeTac was France’s leader in on-line ticket sales of spectacles.
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About Tradeewatches: The trusted third-party marketplace for all watch lovers.
David-Benjamin Brakha
Founder & CEO of Blackbell
Prior to founding Hotelcloud, David founded another startup known as ACstant in 2009, an email-based personal assistant and concierge service. ACstant has handled more than 5k requests, half of which were travel related. Hotelcloud was the next logical step in his vision. Often times qualified as a visionary and an out-of-the-box thinker, his ambition is to revolutionize the hospitality industry by making it more connected through technology.
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About Blackbell: Blackbell is a SaaS platform that integrates all processes to sell services.
Borja Moreno de Los Rios
Co-founder & Co-CEO of Merlin
Borja is Co-CEO of Merlin, the fastest growing hourly talent marketplace in the US. Before becoming an internet entrepreneur, he worked in early stage VC focused on consumer technology and marketplaces. Prior to that, Borja built a social enterprise in Uganda providing bicycle microleasing services in rural areas. Borja is a financier by training and started his work career as an interest rates trader at Goldman Sachs. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Merlin: Merlin is an internet company that specializes in the fields of the marketplace, consumer software, delivery, and human resources.
Deven Patel
Founder & CEO of Alter
Founder and CEO of Alter, a domain marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with premium business names. Prior to Alter, he was founder and chief executive officer of Cyfe, a SaaS startup which offers an all-in-one dashboard software that helps businesses easily monitor, analyze, and share all of their vital business data from one single location in real-time.
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About Alter: Alter is a domain marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with premium business names.
Paul Warshaw
Founder and CEO of Greenrush
Founder at GreenRush Group.
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About Greenrush: Greenrush facilitates an online marketplace that enables consumers to connect with cannabis dispensary retailers.
Michelle McCormack
CEO & Founder of Casting Coin
Michelle M. McCormack is the Founder & CEO Casting Coin.
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About Casting Coin: Booking Cool Models, etc from NYC to LA and Revolutionizing The Production Process.
Adrian Gradinaru
Founder & CEO of Sailo
Adrian Gradinaru is a co-founder and CEO at Sailo, a three-way online marketplace that allows users to view, compare, and book boats and licensed captains to plan a personalized journey. Prior to that, he has held multiple senior engineering positions in Silicon Valley. He has obtained an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford, and a Bachelor of Science from Duke University.
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About Sailo: Sailo is an online marketplace for people who want to rent boats.
Siddhartha Jha
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Arbol
Siddhartha Jha has over 13 years of experience in the financial industry covering interest rates and commodities in both quantitative research and trading roles. He launched an agriculture futures trading portfolio managing over $100mn at a major commodity trading firm. Sid was the first analyst at a startup commodity hedge fund, which grew to manage over $600mn in assets. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Interest Rates Strategy at J.P. Morgan. Most recently, Sid was a Cross-Commodities Quantitative Strategist at Citadel, one of the largest hedge funds in the world. Sid authored the well-received book “Interest Rate Markets”, published in both English and Mandarin. He has taught financial markets at NYU and was on the board of a non-profit working with inner city youth. Sid graduated from Harvard University Cum Laude with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and an M.A. in Statistics.
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About Arbol, dClimate: Arbol is an InsurTech platform for parametric products that pay quickly and fairly covering external risks such as unexpected weather.
Fernando D’Alessio
Founder and CEO of juntoz.com
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About Endeavor, Internet Enterprises Holding, juntoz.com, Kickstart: A PaaS, Juntoz.com develops marketplaces & operates next-gen online malls focused on opening brand stores and connecting them with consumers
Cherae Robinson
CEO & Founder of Tastemakers Africa
Cherae Robinson is the founder and CEO of Tastemakers Africa. She was named one of 10 emerging women entrepreneurs to watch by Forbes.com.
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About Tastemakers Africa: Experiences marketplace connecting black millennials to culture and heritage worldwide.
Malik Zakaria
Founder and CEO of Field Engineer
Malik founded fieldengineer.com in 2015.
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About ExterNetworks, Field Engineer: Field Engineer develops a marketplace for on-demand field and network engineers.
Adam Pittenger
Founder & CEO of Moved
Founder & CEO at Moved.
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About Moved: Moved offers a free personal moving assistant and everything that is needed all in one place.
Gregory Kress
Chief Executive Officer of Shapeways
Gregory currently works as CEO at Shapeways.
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About Shapeways: Shapeways offers 3D technology solutions to enable the automation, innovation, and digitization of product development.
Kristen Drapesa
Founder/CEO of EcoHabitude Inc.
Social Entrepreneur & native of Hawaii. Kristen Drapesa is currently the Founder & CEO of Ecohabitude Inc., Former Co-founder of HawaiiPoloLife.com & Dawson Media Hawaii.
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About EcoHabitude Inc.: Ecohabitude is a peer-to-peer marketplace exclusively for socially conscious & ethical brands
Irad Straus
Co-Founder & CEO of Urbanr
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About Urbanr: Urbanr is a marketplace for multi-family apartment rentals.
Michael Schimmel
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sympathy Brands
Michael Schimmel is CEO & Founder at Sympathy Brands.
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About eCondolence.com, shiva.com, Sympathy Brands: Sympathy Brands is a tech and lifestyle company modernizing the end of life marketplace.
Dai Truong
Founder / CEO of Upside Talent
Dai Truong serves as Manager, Investments for ZX Ventures (AB InBev’s venture arm) where he invests in innovative/disruptive companies in/around the beverage space. Before joining ZX Ventures, Dai served as Director of Business Development at Help.com – an Austin-based customer service software company. Previously, he was an Associate in the Venture Capital practice at Austin Ventures, Senior Analyst on the Technology Investment Banking team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Analyst on the Internet/Software team at Thomas Weisel Partners. Dai graduated from UCLA, where he received his BA in Economics and Southeast Asian Studies.
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About Upside Talent: Executive search marketplace
Danielle Li
CEO and Founder of Popshop Live
Danielle Li is a founder and CEO of Popshop Live.
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About Popshop Live: Popshop Live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where talented individuals can create and host their own shopping channel.
Marc Aberle
Chief Executive Officer of Youpooly Corp.
Chief Executive Officer at Youpooly Corp. and Sparq Events. Handles horses and creative minds. Orchestrated 10.000+ transactions at counter Father of two. Submarine Captain.
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About Sparq Events, Youpooly Corp.: Youpooly is a community marketplace for people to publish, discover and access private events around the world.
Evelyne White
Co-Founder, CEO of SixPlus
Co-Founder & CEO at BookaLokal and SixPlus. Her passion and energy for hosting food events is only matched by her desire to make it easier for you to do the same.
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About SixPlus: SixPlus is an online marketplace for corporate event professionals to book private dining spaces in restaurants and hotels across the US.
Matthew Burnett
CEO of Maker’s Row
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About Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Maker’s Row: Maker’s Row is an online marketplace connecting American manufacturers with small, medium-sized, and product-based businesses.
Kristy McCann Flynn
Chief Executive Officer of GoCoach
Kristy has 15 years of experience as a Strategic Human Resource Leader, Change Manager and Organizational Development Expert. She has served in senior leadership positions throughout her career most notably with Pearson Education and Constant Contact. Kristy brings a big picture perspective and a hands-on, tactical approach to her leadership that she is now bringing to life with gocoach where she is CEO & Founder. Kristy’s goal has always been to help and educate others to meet their ultimate success. She is now converting this energy into a company whose mission is to help and educate others to own their career.
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About GoCoach: GoCoach is a B2B SaaS Subscription Talent Development Platform that upskills all employees with it’s coach marketplace and learning platform
Oge Akyil
Founder & CEO of Foodie For All
Founder at FoodieForAll.
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About Foodie For All: Foodie for All is a managed B2B marketplace for workplace food service.
Jean Z. Poh
Founder & CEO of Swoonery
Founder, CEO at Swoonery.
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About Rapaport Group, Swoonery: Recommendation-driven e-commerce marketplace for fine jewelry.
Sean Juneja
Co-Founder & CEO of Decor Aid
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About Decor Aid: Decor Aid is an award-winning, two-sided marketplace connecting interior designers and general contractors with clients.
Georgie Benardete
CEO & Co-Founder of Align17
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About Align17: Align17 is a private marketplace connecting private wealth vetted institutional impact investment opportunities.
Rachel Silver
Founder & CEO of Love Stories TV
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About Love Stories TV: Love Stories TV is a video-powered marketplace for wedding planning.
Rohit Gaur
Founder & CEO of Artisna – The Artisan Marketplace
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About Artisna – The Artisan Marketplace: Artisna is the Artisan Marketplace. It is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items.
Alex Radunsky
Founder and CEO of Tripment Health
Alex Radunsky is the Founder & CEO at Tripment Health.
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About Tripment Health: Tripment Health is a nationwide digital healthcare marketplace for uninsured and underinsured patients to access care at transparent prices.
Sophie Kahn
Founder & Co-CEO of AURATE
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About AURATE: AUrate is an online marketplace that offers its clients a variety of jewelries through direct selling and online.
Steven Abd El Hamid
CEO / Co-founder of LiveWith
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About LiveWith: The First End-to-End Collaborative Rental Marketplace for Roommates
Manuela Seve
CEO & Founder of Alpha’a
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About Alpha’a: B2B Marketplace, connecting companies to the visual arts, we license artwork and dropship limited edition prints
Jacob Sheldon
Co-founder and CEO of Shiny
Co-founder and CEO of Shiny; former CEO of Slice Capital.
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About Shiny: Building the Operating Systems for Fractional Executives
Gary Wieczorek
Founder & CEO of Produce Peddlers
Gary Wieczorek is the Founder and CEO at Produce Peddlers.
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About Produce Peddlers: Produce Peddlers is a digital marketplace for farmers and distributors to sell their off-grade and Farmer’s Choice produce.
Cristina Flaschen
CEO and Founder of Pandium
Cristina Flaschen is the CEO and Founder at Pandium.
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About Pandium: Pandium powers your company’s integration marketplace.
Darryl Phipps
Founder | CEO of Fitnessity
Darryl K. Phipps is the Founder and CEO of PEH Global Inc. PEH GLobal is home to Fitnessity.net, Adventure Entertainment and Ur-Trainer.com. Darryl currently attends Penn State University for business. He is a 5th degree black belt and a 2x martial arts hall of fame inductee.
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About Fitnessity, Ur-Trainer.com, Valor Mixed Martial Arts: Fitnessity (Fit-ness-ity) A multi-sport, social & booking marketplace that connects consumers to any sports activity, anytime, anywhere.
Kanad Chatterjee
Co-Founder and CEO of Learnmet
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About AwsomU, Janssen Belgium, Learnmet: Online B2B/B2C marketplace and smart networking for live and content based knowledge sharing and learning management for all learning needs
Norbert Mehl
Founder & CEO of Mehl Partners
Norbert Mehl is a Swiss-born, New York-based, multilingual serial entrepreneur and international finance professional engaged in startups, M&A, financial services, and real estate. He is the founder and CEO of ExitHub, Global i Ventures, BanxCorp and PanachePrivee. His clients have included hundreds of financial institutions throughout the United States. He has been involved in a wide range of complex businesses, M&A, joint ventures, intellectual property licensing and financial transactions across multiple industry sectors and jurisdictions. He has been frequently quoted by leading financial media. He has structured, executed and provided analysis for transactions involving several billion dollars in total value. He organized and chaired numerous corporate and philanthropic events, including investor conferences and pitch nights, co-sponsored by global luxury brands.
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About BanxCorp, Mehl Partners, Mehl Partners: We’re creating a multimedia global marketplace and transactional social network for dealmakers.
Bill White
CEO of ClearList
Bill White is the Chief Executive Officer of ClearList, the equities marketplace for private companies that are transforming the price discovery of private company securities and redefining a new path for private companies to the public market. Before ClearList, Bill was Managing Director at GTS, joining in May of 2019 to help build out the firm’s business strategy.
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About ClearList: ClearList is a marketplace for private companies that establishes real-time, transparent price discovery based on actual investor sentiment.
Ravid Razak
CEO, Founder of DreamItReel
CEO, DreamItReel.com
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About DreamItReel: DreamItReel is a video creation platform built for brands, agencies, and content creators looking to create high-quality video at scale.
Dan Zaitsev
CEO, Founder of Catchar
Dan Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and product manager with 10+ yrs experience. He started his IT life in early 90s at the age of 7 years with PC 486, VFX 3D (btw VFX was his first VR experience), Nintendo and Playstation. From 18 until 25, he worked for a number of large web-studios as a project manager building web-sites, social widgets and applications. At the age of 25, he worked for a couple of big IT companies as a product owner being involved in development of social and e-commerce mobile applications and websites that generated net revenue exceeding $200,000 per month. Also at this period, he first time visited Silicon Valley and he was really excited how IT technologies can disrupt whole industries. Soon thereafter, he gained his first experience with Augmented Reality technology — Google Glass. At the age of 28 years he was part of the Looksery (Augmented Reality product based on realtime face recognition), Looksery was sold to Snapchat in the biggest ever deal for Ukraine valued at $150M. In 2015 he started to build ROAR Augmented Reality Platform. The key idea is an AR for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), where consumers are able to see AR content such as commercial video, price comparison, nutrition information, etc. directly on the packages. In 2018, I started working on Catchar — the world’s largest Augmented and Mixed Reality community…
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About Catchar: A web-community and marketplace for Augmented Reality developers
Chris Gonzalez
Co-Founder, CEO of Barkly Pets
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About Barkly Pets: Barkly Pets finds professional, background-checked, and highly trained dog walkers in your neighborhood.
Rick Annichiarico
Founder & CEO of GymWisely
9 years of Investment Banking experience consisting of Contract Negotiations, Legal Coordination, Acting Lead on billion-dollar MBS deals. Followed by 9 years of Startup growth strategy, team building. PM, and GM duties. This experience has allowed him to learn how to navigate many pitfalls and build the right team to deliver the right ROI. Additionally, he is 25-year workout enthusiast having utilized numerous gyms and studios and building a broad industry foothold along the way.
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About GymWisely: Fitness Club Membership Marketplace
Logan Pepchinski
Founder + CEO of CraftHounds
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About CraftHounds: CraftHounds is the world’s first Fresh Craft marketplace providing consumers with on-demand delivery of local craft beverages in U.S. cities
Mohammad Ahsan
CEO & Founder of Tugforce
Mohammad is the Founder and CEO of Tugforce Inc. TugForce is an E-commerce based On Demand commercial Truckers and Shippers marketplace. Tugforce main mission is to make Truckers and Shippers more independent through technology and its own algorithms. The business model can save Shippers millions of dollars annually and Truck Drivers can earn more money by not depends on any middlemen. And make themselves 100% independent. Tugforce will be on both Web Application, Android & IOS mobile devices. Please visit www.tugforce.com for more detail. Tugforce are still on our development phase and going to live by April, 2016. Before Tugforce, Mohammad was the Founder and CEO of Century Technologies LLC (DBA: www.technicianmarketplace.com) where he managed 25000+ Information Technology Technicians and Engineers all over the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico for his Clients. It was a B2B Service company. Mohammad managed global Projects and provide Service for his Fortune 1000 Clients and reduces their Global project/service related cost more than 60% through his invented supply chain management application. He sold his company to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SUPPORT (IBS) and they are operating the company as a different name now. Mohammad has his own Patent in Commercial Logistic and Supply Chain Management. Follow Mohammad at @centahsan. Mohammad’s Patent Link in Google: http://www.google.com/patents/US8463636
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About Tugforce: Tugforce is a web and mobile platform that connects commercial truckers and fleets to commercial shippers.
Michael Leek
Founder & CEO of flyRuby.com
As Founder and CEO of flyRuby.com, Michael recognized an industry wide shortcoming and developed a business model to reduce the inefficiencies of private charter by routing all of the demand through one web site, creating the most efficient and dynamic online scheduling tool for the private jet charter industry.
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About flyRuby.com: flyruby is an online internet market place for private jets that offers its users to search, compare, and pay for air charter online.
Anne Fulton
CEO of Fuel50
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About Fuel50: Fuel50 is the AI-powered opportunity marketplace that delivers internal talent mobility and workforce reskilling.
Jessica Pritchett
CEO + Founder of LOVR
Founder of LOVR.
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About LOVR: LOVR is a curated marketplace where people connect to sell and buy clean beauty products.
Elizabeth Smith Kulik
Co-Founder, CEO of ProHatch
Liz powers transformation at ProHatch with entrepreneurial instincts and a clarity of vision earned from over 35 years of executive leadership in the real estate and financial services industries. She has a rich history of building exponential social and financial value in global and domestic entities with significant operating and investment interests in real estate, and has championed innovative technologies in the real estate industry. Living the real estate industry first-hand as principal, executive and advisor, she has positively impacted over $75b of real estate investments in a career that includes: Co-Head Global Real Estate Solutions & Senior Managing Director/FTI Consulting (FCN); CSO/Grubb & Ellis; President/BGK Properties, Inc.; VP/Glenborough Real Estate Investment Trust, and Aetna Realty Investors. Liz works closely with domestic and international corporations, public and private investors, and US & foreign governments in numerous global and US markets to align capitalization with the many strategic social, business and financial touch-points stakeholders need to create investment worthy enterprises, assets and communities. She believes crowdfinance will quickly take its place as an institutional alternative in the traditional capital markets as the crowd capital sector evolves, and is building ProHatch to transform the way people invest in growth oriented real estate portfolios, operating companies and nonprofits. We offer investors and sponsors applied advisory services, targeted networking, and aligned capital, ProHatch is an alternative capital marketplace for financial and social investment.
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About ProHatch: ProHatch is an online marketplace for real estate investing.
